See How the Actors in The Crown Season 3 Transformed to Become Royals

Olivia Colman will replace Claire Foy as Queen Elizabeth, while Tobias Menzies takes over from Matt Smith as Prince Philip.

Here's a slideshow of what the show's new actors look like in real life versus as their royal characters.

Netflix's sumptuous and addictive royal drama The Crown is finally returning this November (at least according to Tobias Menzies), and it's going to look very different from the show you remember. As fans will no doubt know by now, the entire cast has been replaced for the new season—because the show covers such a long span of time, and keeping the same actors would require a prohibitive amount of aging prosthetics—and Olivia Colman will be replacing Claire Foy in the lead role of Queen Elizabeth II.

If, like us, you're curious, here's a slideshow of what the actors look like as their royal characters, versus their everyday lives. So far, Netflix has only released photos of four main characters—the Queen, Prince Philip, Princess Margaret, and Antony Armstrong-Jones. As soon as we get the rest, we'll return with updates.

Olivia Colman – Queen Elizabeth II

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Colman already has one incredibly memorable royal performance under her belt, having won this year's Best Actress Oscar for playing Queen Anne in The Favourite, and now she's taking over from Claire Foy in The Crown's lead role. The actress has admitted to Vanity Fairthat she found the role nerve-wracking "because everyone knows what the Queen looks like, what she sounds like, and everyone’s in love with Claire Foy, including me.”

Tobias Menzies – Prince Philip

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Tobias Menzies, best known for playing the dual role of Frank Randall and Jack Randall in Outlander, is taking over from Matt Smith in the role of Prince Philip. Menzies told the Radio Timesthat the new season will find Philip experiencing a low-key midlife crisis in the wake of the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing. "Philip gets very absorbed by the heroism of these men compared to what maybe he hasn’t done with his own life," he explained.

Helena Bonham Carter - Princess Margaret

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Queen Elizabeth's vivacious and sardonic younger sister Princess Margaret will now be played by Helena Bonham Carter, who's taking over from Vanessa Kirby. “I’m not sure which I’m more terrified about—doing justice to the real Princess Margaret or following in the shoes of Vanessa Kirby’s Princess Margaret,” Carter has said, per IndieWire. “The only thing I can guarantee is that I’ll be shorter [than Vanessa].”

Ben Daniels – Antony Armstrong-Jones

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Season 2 chronicled the first meeting between Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones, a.k.a. Lord Snowdon, and their subsequent wedding. As season 2 moves deeper into the 1960s, the couple's famously tempestuous relationship will remain central to the show, and Ben Daniels is taking over from Matthew Goode in the role of Armstrong-Jones.